The Adobe Illustrator CS4 Wow! Book

Sharon Steuer (Autor)

Media-Kombination

496 Seiten

2009
Peachpit Press Publications
978-0-321-60558-0 (ISBN)

Infos

For years, Sharon Steuer and her international Wow! team have been reaching out to the world of professional illustrators to showcase the range and quality of work these artists are doing in Illustrator. In this revised edition of the best-selling and award-winning Illustrator Wow! Book, you’ll find tips, tricks, and techniques derived from actual projects from more than 100 of the world’s top Illustrator artists. Using Adobe Illustrator CS4, Sharon shows you how to integrate projects using multiple artboards, work transparency into gradients, and draw with the new Blob Brush tool. You’ll not only learn how to “think in Illustrator” with the Zen of Illustrator lessons, you’ll be guided in a wide range of techniques essential for mastering Adobe Illustrator. This edition is loaded with new artwork and lessons that cover:


Basic and advanced techniques with the new Multiple Artboards feature



Preparing Illustrator files for work in Photoshop



Working with the Gradient Annotator and transparency



Blob Brush tool artwork and integration with Live Paint



Blending modes and transparency



More masking with LiveType



Expressive brushwork and symbolism



Taking advantage of the improved Appearance panel



New lessons for creating glows and highlights



Updated Zen lessons



Colorizing photos



Demystifying Live Color



Creating photorealistic mesh

Autor

Award-winning artist, author, teacher and digital art guru, Sharon Steuer has been a major force in the digital art world for more than two decades. Her traditional and digital artwork has been exhibited widely, with awards for painting including the national Faber Birren Color Award and Windsor Newton Painting Award. Sharon is a regular columnist for creativepro.com, and is author of Creative Thinking in Photoshop: A New Approach to Digital Art as well as all editions of the best-selling Adobe Illustrator WOW! Book, which has twice received the Ben Franklin Award for best computer book. 

Inhalt

 1 Basics  
 2 Zen  
 3 Draw & Color  
 4 Beyond Basics  
 5 Brushes, Symbols  
 6 Layers, Appearances  
 7 Type  
 8 Blends, Gradients  
 9 Transparency  
 10 Live Color  
 11 Live Effects, Graphic Styles  
 12 Live 3D Effects  
 13 Adv Techniques  
 14 Web & Animation  
 15 Other programs

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.6.2009
• Verlagsort: Berkeley
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 197 x 231 mm
• Gewicht: 1176 g
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Grafik / Design ► Illustrator
• ISBN-10: 0-321-60558-6 / 0321605586
• ISBN-13: 978-0-321-60558-0 / 9780321605580
• Zustand: Neuware